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On several occasions, Robert Lents and his fellow prisoners outmaneuvered their Japanese captors. [Annotator's Note:...

Frank George Memory was born in Slaterville, Utah in July 1923. He had one brother and a sister and was the middle...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

When assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) in March 1942, Thomas Tizzard was given leave in Sydney, Australia for R...

Lowell Rodrigue received more training and was assigned to a unit that was on a Merchant Marine ship. They went to...

Elmer Koenig was interviewing teachers about why they were leaving. He taught in Los Angeles County [Annotator’s Note:...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

Lowell Rodrigue was assigned to a special unit and sent to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau Islands], but the...

Joseph Daquana was born in Plaquemines, Louisiana in May 1928. He was the second youngest child in a family of seven...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

Jack Leaming arrived in Tokyo after the Japanese surrender and was put aboard a hospital ship. They were stripped naked...

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